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Hi everyone Thanks for this Nicola. Interesting reading, particularly useful to share with clients developing budgets for grant applications. I wonder how much this is shaped by the hlf unskilled/skilled/professional in-kind rates and wonder if the Arts Council and other funders have similar published rates. Does anyone know? Thanks Yvonne On 15 April 2016 at 12:56, Nicola Bell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > **aplogies for cross-posting** > > > > Hello everyone > > > > Thank you very much to everyone for the 41 responses and 9 emails about > the consultants' and freelancers' daily rates survey. As promised, I am > reporting back to the lists (GEM, GEM Freelance Network, Visitor Studies > Group) – please see the report attached. > > > > There is a lot of strength of feeling in the responses, that consultants > and freelancers provide a very high level of skill and expertise to > cultural heritage organisations, without which many projects would not take > place, as consultants and freelancers bring additional capacity to > organisations as well as skills and expertise. Very many cultural heritage > projects are a three-way partnership between the cultural heritage > organisation (the client), the funder and the consultant / freelancer. > > > > Many of the respondents feel that clients do not fully recognise the costs > which consultants and freelancers incur in running their businesses, and so > project budgets do not always allow an adequate amount for > consultants'/freelancers' work. As so many cultural heritage projects are > funded by various grant-making organisations, the grant makers should > ensure that the sums allowed for consultants and freelancers are realistic, > in the same way as costs for equipment, construction, etc. This will help > consultants and freelancers continue to deliver high quality services to > the cultural heritage sector. > > > > This survey, although limited, has given an idea of the range of daily > rates which consultants and freelancers charge for various tasks and > flagged up some of the issues which affect them in running their > businesses. It's a "toe in the water" and someone else – an organisation, > perhaps? – might like to consider taking this further. > > > > Best wishes > > > > Nicola > > > > Nicola Bell > > culture-evaluation-learning > > T: 01830 540350 > > E: [log in to unmask] > > W: www.nicolabell.co.uk > > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner > for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about > joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list > website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + -- Yvonne Conchie Interpretation Planning for Living Wild at Kielder <https://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/living-wild-kielder-secures-national-lottery-funding> Community Asset Transfer development, chairing Allendale First <http://www.allendalefirst.org> Evaluation for South Tynedale Railway <http://www.south-tynedale-railway.org.uk/> - Broadening Horizons *Lead collaborator at Conchie & Co: Community, Heritage & Learning <http://conchie.co/>* Project design, funding, delivery and evaluation m: 07733265288 t: 01434 618803 e: [log in to unmask] w: conchie.co *Project Manager for Dukesfield Smelters and Carriers Project <http://www.dukesfield.org.uk/the-project/> * Best Coast or Countryside Project in the Love Northumberland Awards 2015 Highly Commended in the Constructing Excellence North East Awards 2015 Shortlisted in Historic England's Heritage Angels Awards 2015. <http://conchie.co/> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +